Apr
21
2006
Making a (Power)Point of Not Being Tiresome – Los Angeles Times
PowerPoint is:
* Bullet Points
* A Mysterious Jumble of Graphs and Charts
* Utter Boredom
But Cliff Atkinson, who runs a one-man, Los Angeles-based company called Sociable Media, wants to change all that.
Apr
20
2006
Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation : HBS Working Knowledge
Business literature is packed with advice about worker motivation—but sometimes managers are the problem, not the inspiration. Here are seven practices to fire up the troops. From Harvard Management Update.
Apr
02
2006
Bona tempora volvantur–by Guy Kawasaki: The Art of the Executive Summary
By now, you’ve probably already read several articles, web pages—even books—about writing the perfect executive summary. Most of them offer a wealth of well-intended suggestions about all the stuff you need to include in the executive summary. They provide a helpful list of [...]
Apr
02
2006
Study: You can lower the odds of being outsourced – Computerworld
Based on interviews with 96 SIM members, all of them IT managers at firms ranging from small companies to multinational enterprises, the study found that business skills accounted for five of the 10 attributes organizations want from their in-house staffers over the next [...]